On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
of being twisted iato an offensive import . It ? is not , therefore , from his implacable enemies that I would seek an elucidation of his meaning in any instance , especially in passages perhaps designedly ambiguous , to revolt the impracticable stiffness of their hearts .
Rather would I , have recourse to his chosen friends and disciples for their understanding of any declarations that passed his lips , an < J which have since become the subjects of controversy ; and that , fairly ascertained , should , in my humble apprehension , prevail decisively .
Did , then I ask , those friends and disciples who accompanied his ministry , and whose faith in what he uttered was implicit , understand him as asserting that he and his Father were € t one God" ? What indications escaped them
of their understanding him in this awful and overpowering sense ? Did they cover their faces and fall prostrate in his presence ? Did they subsequently associate with him , oppressed by the consciousness of his divinity , —even with that hesitation and restraint which
any of them would have felt , if apprised that they were conversing with Caesar in disguise , however much encouraged by his condescension ? We know the contrary of all this ; that his disciples to the last conversed with him without embarrassment ,
affectionately , familiarly , however respectfully ; and that the tone of the intercourse they held with their Master was scarcely changed , after he had ratified his divine mission by emerging from the tomb . What then is the clear deduction
from these premises ? Is it that which I have recognized in the commencement of this paper ? Or , are we to vindicate the Jews in the strained constructions they put , or affected in their malice to put , upon his divine communications , and confess
that they did riot misinterpret or misrepresent them ? Or , to maintain that his disciples chatted with the Almighty , knowing well with whom , and seated themselves at table with him , so undauntedly , that one of them scrupled not to recline upon his bosom ?
Or , to contend th&t the orthodox of this generation understand what Jesus sauj , but that hi * confidential diseiptes , to whom ; iii theiir retirement , he w&fc
Untitled Article
* ? accustomed to expound what he Had declared ambiguously in public , dicl not ? It is a choice of difficulties that I
present to these impatient theologians ; more than suspecting that ; arrogant as the assumption might appear , they would , one and all , incline to chodse the last as the least . BREVIS .
Untitled Article
Sir , ¦•¦ ¦ MUCH as you have doubtless lamented the late decision of the American Congress to permit the Missouri territory , on its admission among the United States , to hold slaves , it
will give you some consolation to hear from undoubted authority , that this decision is as warmly reprobated by the more enlightened of our transatlantic brethren of ail sects and parties , as it can be in this country .
In a letter from a very excellent Unitarian minister in Dorchester , Massachusetts , dated April 20 th , with whom I have the privilege of occasionally corresponding , after mentioning the unchristian proposition and
deploring the unhappy result , he thus expresses himself : — " It was generally believed that Congress could not grant such an indulgence ; that it would be a violation of the Bill of Rights on which our constitution was founded ,
as well as of the principles of justice and humanity . Both in the Senate and Congress , the question whether Missouri should be admitted with or without the restriction , was agitated in warm debate , and in some most
impressive speeches . All that learning , humanity , a regard to sound policy , and a respect for the principles of our free government could adduce in favour of restricting slavery in the New State ,
exhibited with the most powerful and impressive eloquence , failed , alas , of effecting their benevolent purpose . Their pleadings fell upon deafened ears ' , and moved not hearts indurated by selfishness . The bill for the admission
of Missouri into the Union passed the House of Representatives without ttt < 8 restrictive clause prohibiting slavery , though only by a majority of four votes . —Against the restriction , 90 ; for the restriction , 86 ; so that Missouri is permitted to become a slave-holding stafcte !! " f '" my correspondent thus pitteecidfc , ^
Untitled Article
* * % B * ' * r ' * ¦ ' ** * Mrs . Cappe dh Slavery in the United States . 511
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/11/
-